“I played dead”: boy recounts how he survived a shooting in Texas

In an interview with ABC News, little Samuel Salinas, 10 years old, told how he managed to survive the massacre at his school in Uvalde, Texasand how he witnessed the gunman, Salvador Ramos, enter his classroom to shoot him and his classmates.

“Everyone is going to die,” Ramos said, according to Samuel, and immediately afterwards opened fire on the teacher Irma García and the children. The seconds that followed were a nightmare, according to the minor, who ended up injured in the leg.

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Samuel Salinas is a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and the plan was to graduate this week. Thanks god he was one of the survivors of the massacredespite being in the room where the murderer locked himself up to shoot.

‘The boy recalled in the televised interview the moments of horror, the screams of the children. He said that the day was normal until the teacher told them that they should lock themselves up. “I think it was pointed directly at me,” he commented, but he remembered that there were chairs between him and the murderer. and that is why the bullets did not hit him directly, but rather shrapnel hit him in one leg.

“I played dead so he wouldn’t shoot me,” revealed little Samuel, adding that many other children did the same. Authorities and teachers pointed out that children are taught this type of techniques and training to react to an attack with weapons at school.

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Samuel Salinas, 10, Texas shooting survivor. (ABCNews/)

The minor also recounted how a telephone began to ring. A girl wanted to reach him to silence him but “I heard shots.”

The police confronted Salvador Ramos at that moment and neutralized him.. The uniformed officers then moved the desks to remove the victims and the wounded. Samuel remembers that “there was blood on the ground and there were children covered in blood”.

Samuel, like other children at the Robb de Uvalde school, have doubts about going back to class. “Any time I’m locked up I’m going to be really scared,” he said, ending by saying that going back to school for his fifth grade is something that just overwhelms him.

Source: Elcomercio